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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
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1. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






2. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






3. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






4. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






5. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






6. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






7. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






8. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






9. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






10. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






11. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






12. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






13. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






14. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






15. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






16. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






17. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






18. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






19. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






20. The selection of words in a literary work.






21. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






22. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






23. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






24. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






25. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






26. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






27. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






28. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






29. The time and place of a story or play.






30. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






31. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






32. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






33. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






34. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






35. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






36. A three-line stanza.






37. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






38. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






39. A poem that tells a story.






40. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






41. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






42. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






43. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






44. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






45. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






46. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






47. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






48. What a story or play is about.






49. A four line stanza in a poem.






50. The person who 'tells' the story.







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